Penholder.



No. 646,07I. Patented Mar. 27, I900.

B. B. GOLDSMITH.

PENHULDEB.

(Application filed Aug. 8, 1899.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BYRON B. GOLDSMITH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PENHOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,071, dated March27, 1900. Application filed August 8, 1899. Serial No. 726,541. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BYRON B. GOLDSMITH, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of New York, in the county and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Penholders, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention is to improve the construction of a penholderin order to increase its strengthand utility, while at the same timerendering the same lighter and cheaper of construction.

To this end my invention consists in a penholder having astrengthening-annulus embedded in the material thereof and surrounding,but not constituting, the wall of the pensocket.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my penholder, andFig. 2 a section thereof. 7

The penholder has a finger-hold a, of cork, rubber, or other suitablematerial, in the socket of which is a tenon b, of usual construction. Inthe material of the finger-hold Ct iS embedded an annulus c, of metal orother strengthening material. In case the fingerhold is of cork or thelike it can be recessed by means of suitable tools, and the annulus canthen be pushed in place and cemented therein, if desirable; but shouldthe fingerhold be made of rubber or other composition the annulus may beembedded therein at a certain point in its manufacture, so that when thefinger-hold is finished the annulus will be firmly held in its properplace. In the case of rubber the annulus will be vulcanized in the mass,and where other compositions are used it will be fixed by means of acuring process used for the particular composition.

The advantages of my invention are obvious. When a soft flexiblematerial, like rubber or ,cork, is used for the finger-hold, the holderwill accommodate itself to all kinds of pens no matter what thecurvature or width of pen-shanks is and will hold them firmly, for thereason that the soft material being next to the pen it will adapt itselfto the size and shape of the pen-shank. This does not occur when thereinforcement usually used constitutes the wall of the pen-socket.Besides when the metal annulus forms the inside wall of a pen-socket themetal of the annulus is liable to be corroded by the ink, and the pen isdifficult to remove from the socket because of the tendency of the metalpen to stick to the metal of the annulus, with which it contacts. In my.invention the pen contacts with cork or rubber or other material andnot with metal.

It will be understood that my invention is clearly applicable to suchpenholders which are not made with a separate finger-hold, but where theentire holder is in one piece, and each of my claims is intended tocover either of such constructions.

What I claim is 1. A penholder having a strengthening-an nulussurrounding the pen-socket and embedded in the material of the holder,substan tially as described.

2. A vulcanized-rubber penholder having a strengthening-annulussurrounding the pen= socket and embedded and vulcanized into thematerial of the finger-hold, substantially as described.

3. A penholder having a fin ger-hold of com paratively-fiexible materialand a strengthening-annulus, surrounding the pen-socket, and embedded inthe material of the finger-hold, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses:

K. E. FINN, W. BURT.

